I am taking the step to start a small business consultancy using digital map technology to assist retail business to better understand their environment and make informed location based decision. My ...

I am looking for a way to simulate a gravity model using a point-based layer.
All my points are assigned a z-value and the higher this value, the larger is their "sphere of influence". This influence ...

I am just starting an Intro GIS course, so I really have no idea what the best place is to find downloadable GIS data. I was really hoping to do my semester project on library or bookstore locations ...

in a project I am doing, there is a need to combine data from different sources into a GIS and show it in one map. The data could be from ERP system like SAP or other sources.
which tool could be used ...

I always wonder, why in GIS industry there are merely two major options available. Although there are many other proprietary software products for GIS, their market share is well below ESRI products ...

I am interested in creating some customer-derived trade areas that represent "most" of the customers for a given store (say 80%). I have both the customers and the stores geocoded.
The ESRI Business ...

I am looking for location intelligence tools (= combination of business intelligence + GIS). I had a look at several options: SpagoBI, Microstrategy + VisualCrossing, Yellowfin, and Map Intelligence.
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I would like to find where in the City there is a combination of 10 restaurants, 10 retail, and 10 stores open after 6pm within 3 linear blocks. What is the best way to do this? What data would I need ...

Probably a very simple question. I have a list of about a thousand potential geographical locations (lat lon), and of those I need to select the 200 locations that are "most spread out". I think that ...

I am curious if anyone has come up or has a good graphic style they can share that is symbology for NAICS codes. I have a large dataset that I want to symbpolize based on the 2 digit NAICS industry ...

Every 6 months or so I continue to revisit a topic I have never found an answer for. What I am looking for is some type (ANY TYPE) of national map which outlines the boundaries of each of the 1000+ ...

I am currently searching for high resolution data on residential or commercial land use in the USA. I'd like to use this data to determine for a given location wether this location is in a house with ...

I am using ArcGIS 10 and I have 2 shapefiles; (a) a polygon shapefile of block groups of the entire US, (b) a point shape file of customer locations throughout the US. What I want to know if how many ...

I'm new to GISs. I'm searching for a GIS to meet following requirements.
I have a list of street addresses [A,B,C,D,E,...], with additional information associated (basically which orders to deliver ...

Freelancers and small business owners, how do you handle product delivery and support to your remote clients? Example: I have a client who knows enough about ArcMap to add a shapefile, turn layers on ...

the managers of the bank where I work at have been considering creating a "GIS-unit" that would help with economic-related research / business inteligence. They asked me to raise a list of reasons of ...

Do you know any research paper about spatial data mining algorithms to retrieve trends about local business services (such as google places.. etc)
let's say most rated restaurants this week.. etc ?
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What would you say is the most common unmet GIS need for businesses, as far as technology goes?
I'm a programmer and I'm trying to think of a business idea. I like GIS, so I think I might want to do ...

This is hypothetical so don't ask for details:
I've heard of this GIS thing with computers and maps and stuff and it sounds like it might apply to this project I'm working on. Could you explain what ...

This should have been an obvious precursor (that I didn't ask) to my other question:
PostGIS function to create spider diagrams?
If I do not know the relationship between a point in layer A (stores) ...